Tarlton's jests, and news out of purgatory.
Subtitle: With notes, and some account of the life of Tarlton
By: by James Orchard Halliwell. London, 1884.
Contributors: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. 1820-1889.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Tarlton, Richard, d. 1588.; English wit and humor.
Notes: Original ed. issued in series: Shakespeare Society Publications, no. 20.
More or less fictitious anecdotes, many of them far older than Tarlton, who probably was in no way responsible for either work. Cf. Dict. nat. biog., and introd.